parkline,
The thing is, if you look at the context of the song, he mentions "the sound of the driving snow." Clearly, snow does not really have a sound and if it does (of it hitting the ground) it is very very quiet. Perhaps they are make a reference to how we all go dull as we get older; we become less sensitive to things. The driving snow is what drives him home to "you" (whoever that is) and yet he manages to not even be able to hear it. In other words, he has lost his ability to be sensitive to things and it is preventing him from reaching what he knows he loves. That's just my theory.
parkline, The thing is, if you look at the context of the song, he mentions "the sound of the driving snow." Clearly, snow does not really have a sound and if it does (of it hitting the ground) it is very very quiet. Perhaps they are make a reference to how we all go dull as we get older; we become less sensitive to things. The driving snow is what drives him home to "you" (whoever that is) and yet he manages to not even be able to hear it. In other words, he has lost his ability to be sensitive to things and it is preventing him from reaching what he knows he loves. That's just my theory.